64 pointsby wassimans4 hours ago4 comments
  • wassimans3 hours ago
    I wanted to share in this article the fruit of almost a year of trial and error to shape a configuration that made my Doom Emacs a fully featured Swift/iOS development environment. Xcode is still far ahead (previews, instruments as examples), but still; that config gave me the opportunity to stay in Doom Emacs for 98% of the time.
  • whois2 hours ago
    Nice article. How has lsp mode been with Emacs? I've been continuously battling slow downs and hangs using lsp mode w Python and have tried many approaches like lsp-bridge which tries to do the majority of the work outside of emacs.
    • wassimansan hour ago
      Pretty good to be honest. I got much performance problems and cache inconsistencies with Rust lsp server than with Swift’s. The responsiveness is not in par with Xcode but the overall experience is quite good in my experience. My machine is a MacBook Pro M1 BTW.
  • sparsethots2 hours ago
    It’s interesting how easy it is to tell ai was used to write this despite it having none of the obvious mannerisms. I wonder what I would have thought of this article before 2022, or if I just don’t like this style because of overexposure or something
    • iLemming15 minutes ago
      Oh, come on. I get when people complain about AI-assisted writing. It's mostly about signal-to-noise. Yes, AI makes it trivially cheap to produce "correct but empty" content - articles that are technically accurate, well-structured, and say absolutely nothing a reader couldn't get by prompting an LLM themselves.

      Yet sometimes you do need to see a genuine human struggle, ideation, and a real problem behind the article. Let's try not be dismissive off the bat. I understand your style objection is a proxy. Your actual complaint is probably the feel of absence of a specific, earned perspective. Perhaps, it "doesn't speak to you" because you have not encountered the overlapping problems that article may help you with.

      That isn't prose - it's educational, informational, well-structured and has code snippets. Let's not devalue someone's genuine work only because they decided to use AI-assistance - there could be legit reasons, from language barrier to lack of time. Good writing is hard. With and without AI. Not everyone commands the skill of writing, let's not rob them of the opportunity to cultivate it. Sometimes, it starts with dull, spiritless paragraphs.

    • wassimansan hour ago
      You are free to think like that, and I respect your feeling. The reality is that it took me almost a year to get the config details right and days of preparation to ship that article. I took inspiration from this article if you’re curious: https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/.
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  • cadamsdotcom25 minutes ago
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